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Professor Dacher Keltner talks about the Science of Happiness

From KALW (NPR San Francisco)
| February 18, 2015

There’s a science to happiness. And one of the centers for its study is right here in the Bay Area.
The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley studies human happiness, compassion and altruism. KALW sat down with its co-director Dacher Keltner, author of the book, Born To Be Good.
Listen to the interview at the link!

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